What kind of thoughts would a Greek or Roman have had about the

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>>3122920
They were the lands of the Cimmerians, Cimmerians were seen as barbarians by Romans but they had some civilized towns during the late bronze age and early iron age so Homer just saw them as a distant mysterious people

>>3122920
>"wow it's fucking nothing!"
Honestly, I don't understands what the fuck drove Russians east once they started expanding their realm.
that picture plus some bush or tree here and there is pretty much all you would see for thousands of miles until you ran across a tundra forest in the middle of Siberia with some slant eyed dudes who traded women for sable furs.

>>3123010

Are you retarded? Not all of European Russia is steppe. They didn't even expand into the steppe at first.

>>3123012
>Not all of European Russia is steppe
sure, aside from steppe and general grassy plains, there is also a gigantic marshland, some birch forests around the rivers and a huge swath of subarctic arid shitland

that wasn't the point anyway
the point is, Rome (the city) had million people in it, half a millennium before there was ANYTHING of note between Crimea and Kola peninsulas.

>>3123010
Looks ultra comfy, like how heaven will look like

>>3123050

There were millions of people living by those rivers.
It was no more or less irrelevant than the rest of Northern Europe.

>>3123076
*gets swarmed by mayflies and locusts*

>>3122920
>slave source
>Scythians
>amber

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>>3123113
>millions of people in European russia
>1000 years before founding of Muscovy

>>3123167

Moscow was a regional population center for thousands of years in the middle of Baltic and Volga-Finnic worlds.

Are you an American?